Using Picture Books

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Using Picture Books

To Introduce or Teach Skills

MATH

Counting - Simple:

*Grapes of Math – Tang (math riddles, higher level counting)

**King’s Commissioners – Friedman (by 2’s, 5’s, etc.)

**Leaping Lizards - Murphy

**M&M’s Counting Book – McGrath

**Spots: Counting Creatures from Sky to Sea – Lesser

**Warthogs in the Kitchen – Edwards

Add/Subtract:

**Ready, Set, Hop- Murphy (also teaching ideas in back of book)

Multiplication:

**Anno’s Magic Seeds – Anno

**Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar – Anno

**Arctic Fives Arrive – Pinczes

**Bats on Parade - Appelt

**One Grain of Rice – Demi

*Two Ways to Count to Ten – Dee

Division:

*Divide and Ride - Murphy (teaching ideas in back of book)

*Doorbell Rang - Hutchins

**Great Divide – Dodds

**King’s Commissioners – Friedman

*One Hundred Hungry Ants - Pinczes

**Remainder of One - Pinczes

*Two Ways to Count to Ten – Dee

Fractions:

*Doorbell Rang - Hutchins

**Fraction Fun – Adler

**Give Me Half - Murphy (teaching ideas in back of book)

**Piece=Part=Portion: Fractions=Decimals=Percents –Gifford

Measurement:

**Counting on Frank - Clement

**How Tall, How Short, How Faraway – Adler

**Twelve Snails to One Lizard – Hightower

Circumference:

**Librarian Who Measured the Earth – Lasky

**Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland – Neuschwander

Area & Perimeter:

**Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! – Burns

Capacity & Liquid Measurement:

**Room for Ripley – Murphy

Large Numbers:

**Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? – Wells

Million Fish…More or Less - McKissack

**On Beyond a Million –Schwartz

Estimation:

**Betcha! – Murphy

Geometry:

**Elephants on Board – MacDonald

Grandfather Tang’s Story (Tangrams) - Tompett

**Greedy Triangle – Burns

**Hamster Champs – Murphy (Angles)

**Sir Cumference and the First Round Table – Neuschwander

**Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland – Neuschwander

Time:

*Pigs on a Blanket - McGinley-Nally (teaching ideas in back of book)

Critical Thinking:

**Anno’s Hat Tricks - Anno

Problem Solving:

*Arithme-Tickle – Lew

*Grapes of Math – Tang

*Math Curse – Scieszka

**Safari Park – Murphy (finding the missing element)

Money; Economics:

*Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday – Viorst

*If You Made a Million – Schwartz

**Jelly Beans for Sale– McMillan

**Market Days – Jaffrey

Markets – Bendick

**Pigs Will Be Pigs - Axelrod

Probability: General math:

**No Fair! - Holtzman (teaching ideas in back of book)

**Marvelous Math: a Book ofPoems – Hopkins

Ratio and/or Proportion: G is for Googol – Schwartz

**If Dogs Were Dinosaurs – Schwartz

**Only One – Harshman

**If You Hopped Like a Frog – Schwartz

Graphs:

**Great Graph Contest - Leedy

MORE MATH (Pre-K – 3)

Addition & Subtraction:

**Animals on Board – Murphy, Stuart J. (PreK-2)

**Domino Addition - Long, Lynette (K-3)

*Each Orange Had 8 Slices – Giganti, Paul (PreK-3)

**Elevator Magic – Murphy (K-3)

**Fair Bear Share – Murphy (K-3) (addition, regrouping)

**Monster Musical Chairs – Murphy (PreK-2)

**One Guinea Pig is Not Enough – Duke, kae (PreK-2)

**Shark Swimathon – Murphy (2-4) (subtracting 2-digit)

Twenty is Too Many – Duke, Kate (K-3)

Multiplication and Division:

Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream: A Mathematical Story – Neuschwander & Burns (2-4)

*Best of Times – Tang, Greg (2-5)

**Double the Ducks – Murphy (K-3)

**Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do – Murphy (2-4) (addition, multiplication)

Geometry:

Let’s Fly a Kite – Murphy (1-3) (symmetry)

*My Full Moon is Square – Pinczes, Elinor (K-3)

Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons – Adler, David (K-3)

**Wing on a Flea: A Book about Shapes – Emberley, Ed (K-3)

**When a Line Bends…a Shape Begins – Greene, Rhonda (K-3)

**What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? – Ellis, Julie (3-6)

Fractions:

**Apple Fractions – Pallotta, Jerry (2-4)

**Jump, Kangaroo, Jump – Murphy (2-4)

**Polar Bear Math: Learning about Fractions from Klondike and Snow – Nagda, Ann (3-5)

Probability:

**Probably Pistachio – Murphy (K-3)

Measurement:

**Bigger, Better, Best – Murphy (2-4) (area)

**How Tall, How Short, How Faraway? – Adler, David (K-3)

**Inchworm and a Half – Pinczes, Elinor (PreK-2)

**Inch by Inch – Lionni, Leo (PreK-2)

**Mighty Maddie – Murphy (PreK-1) (weights)

**Millions to Measure – Schwartz, David (1-4)

**Racing Around – Murphy (1-4) (perimeter)

Number Concepts:

**100 Days of Cool – Murphy (1-3)

**Button Box – Reid, Margarette (PreK-1) (patterning )

Earth Day – Hooray! – Murphy (2-4) (place value)

**Every Buddy Counts – Murphy (K-1) (counting)

**Just Enough Carrots – Murphy (K-2) (counting)

**Missing Mittens – Murphy (K-2) (odd and even numbers)

**Pair of Socks – Murphy (K-2) (patterns)

Teeth, Tails, and Tentacles: An Animal Counting Book – Wormell, Christopher (1-4)

**Place for Zero – Murphy (K-3)

Problem Solving and Riddles:

*Five Creatures – Jenkins, Emily (K-3)

Riddle-iculous Math – Holub, Joan (3-6)

Telling Time:

**Bunny Day: Telling Time from Breakfast to Bedtime – Walton, Rick (Prek-K)

**Cluck O’Clock – Gray, Kes (PreK-2)

**Game Time – Murphy (1-4)

How Long? – Dale, Elizabeth (PreK-K)

**It’s about Time! – Murphy (K-3)

It’s about Time, Max! – Richards, Kitty (1-3)

**Little Rabbits’ First Time Book – Baker, Alan (PreK-K)

**Me Counting Time from Seconds to Centuries – Sweeney, Joan (K-2)

Mouse Tells the Time – Moon (PreK-1)

Telling Time – Older, Jules (2-5)

**Telling Time with Big Mama Cat – Harper, Dan (K-3)

**What Time Is It, Mr. Crocodile? – Sierra, Judy (PreK-2)

Percentages:

**Grizzly Gazette – Murphy (2-4)

Estimation/Rounding:

**Coyotes All Around – Murphy (1-4)

Money/Negative Numbers:

**Less than Zero – Murphy (2-4)

SCIENCE

General:

**Science Verse – Scieszka & Smith

Weather:

*Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Barrett

*Feel the Wind – Dorros

Geoffry Groundhog Predicts the Weather – Koscielniak (Groundhog Day)

It’s Up to You, Griffin– Pickford (Groundhog Day)

**River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz (poems, flood in SD)

*Snowflake Bentley - Martin

**The Storm – Harshman

**The Storm Book – Zoloto

*Thunder Cake – Polacco

Plants:

**Old Elm Speaks, Tree Poems – George

Pumpkin Circle: Story of a Garden - Levenson

**Reason for a Flower - Heller

**Sky Tree – Locker

A Tree is Growing – Dorros

Trees: The FirstForest – Giles

Spiders:

**Like Jake and Me - Jukes

Bats:

*Stellaluna - Cannon

Snakes:

*Verdi -Cannon

Pigs:

**Pigs -Gibbons

Food Chains/Food Webs:

*Sierra - Siebert

Space:

Call Me Ahnightio - Conrad (about a famous meteorite)

Dust:

**Stars Beneath Your Bed: the Surprising Story of Dust - Sayre

SOCIAL STUDIES

Early Exploration:

**The Discovery of the Americas - Maestro

**Encounter - Yolen

Native Americans:

*Annie and the Old One – Miles

*Beyond the Ridge – Goble

*Gift of the Sacred Dog – Goble

*Girl Who Loved Wild Horses – Goble

**Her Seven Brothers – Goble

**Knots on a Counting Rope - Martin

*Legend of the Indian Paintbrush – De Paola

**Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native America – Bruchac

**Mystic Horse- Goble

**Story of Jumping Mouse – Steptoe

Thunder on the Plains – Robbins

Pilgrims:

*Courage of Sarah Noble (1707)- Dalgliesh (short chapter book, 58pages)

*Molly Bannaky (1603) - McGill

On the Mayflower, Voyage of the Ship’s Apprentice & a Passenger Girl - Waters

*Pilgrims of Plimoth - Sewall

**Stranded at Plimoth Plantation - Bowen

*Three Young Pilgrims – Harness

Colonial:

*A Picture Book of George Washington - Adler

**Baker’s Dozen, A Colonial American Tale – Forest

**Our Colonial Year – Harness

Revolutionary War:

Dangerous Crossing – Krensky

George Did It – Jurmain

Great Big Wagon That Rang, How the LibertyBell Was Saved - Slate

**Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry – Hopkins

*John, Paul, George & Ben - Smith

**Katie’s Trunk – Turner

**Let it Begin Here! LexingtonConcord – Fradin

*Paul Revere’s Ride – Longfellow

**Redcoats & Petticoats - Kirkpatrick

*Samuel’s Choice – Berleth(banner kit)

**This Time, Tempe Wick? - Gauch

**Which Way to the Revolution? A Book about Maps – Barner

Lewis and Clark Expedition:

**I Am Sacajawea, I Am York – Murphy

*Lewis and Clark and Me; A Dog’s Tale - Myers (short fiction read-aloud, 63 pages)

Gold Rush:

**Gold Fever - Kay

Railroad Race (1863-1869):

**Iron Horses - Kay

Civil War:

**A. Lincoln and Me – Borden

**Blue and the Gray - Bunting

**Cecil’s Story - Lyon

**Ghosts of the Civil War - Harness

*Pink and Say - Polacco

**Red Legs, a Drummer Boy of the Civil War - Lewin

**Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt – Fleming

Slavery:

*Nettie’s Trip South - Turner

*Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt -Smucker

**Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt - Hopkinson

Westward Movement:

*Cassie’s Journey, Going West in the 1860’s - Harvey

**Dandelions - Bunting

Grandmother Essie’s Covered Wagon – Williams

**Prairie Primer A-Z – Stutson

**Prairie Alphabet – Moore (modern times)

Red Flower Goes West – Turner

Season’s Sewn: a year in Patchwork - Paul

**Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt - Smucker

**Wagons West- Gerrard

Orphan Trains (1850’s-1920’s)

*Train to Somewhere - Bunting

Dust Bowl/Depression:

*Dust Bowl - Booth

**Leah’s Pony - Friedrich

*The Babe & I - Adler

Effects of “Progress”:

*Heron Street - Turner

LettingSwiftRiver Go - Yolen

Complete History of One Location:

**Barn - Atwell

*Heron Street - Turner

**House on Maple Street - Pryor

*River Ran Wild - Cherry

**Tree in the Trail - Holling

Map Skills / Geography:

**Armadillo from Amarillo - Cherry

**Around the World, Who’s Been Here? - George

*Geography From A to Z – Knowlton

**Mapping Penny’s World – Leedy

**Picture Book of the U.S.A. – Goodman

*Scrambled States of America – Keller

Economics:

**Anno’s Magic Seeds – Anno

Lemons and Lemonade: a Book about Supply and Demand – Loewen

*Ox-Cart Man – Hall

Government:

*Ghosts of the White House - Harness

**House Mouse, Senate Mouse – Barnes

**Marshall, the Courthouse Mouse - Barnes

*So You Want to Be President – St. George

Woodrow For President – Barnes

**Woodrow, the White House Mouse – Barnes

WWII:

*Baseball Saved Us – Mochizuki

*The Bracelet - Uchida

**Cello of Mr. O – Cutler

Unbreakable Code - Hunter (Navajo code talkers)

*Yellow Star, The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark- Deedy

**In My Pocket - Sim

Famous Quotes:

**Who Said That? Famous Americans Speak - Burleigh

Newspaper Headlines:

**Dateline: Troy – Fleischman

Symbols of America:

**Uncle Sam and Old Glory, Symbols of America – West

LANGUAGE ARTS

Similes/Metaphors:

**Brave as a Mountain Lion - Scott

**Grandma Essie’s Covered Wagon - Williams

*Knots on a Counting Rope – Martin

**Like Jake and Me - Jukes

**Old Jake’s Skirts - Slonim

*Owl Moon – Yolen

*Quick as a Cricket - Wood

*Song and Dance Man - Ackerman

*Swamp Angel – Zelinsky

*The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses - Goble

Personification:

**Call Me Ahnighito- Conrad

*Giving Tree – Silverstein

*If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff

*Officer Buckle and Gloria – Rathmann

*Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – Steig

*Velveteen Rabbit - Williams

Onomatopoeia:

*Heron Street – Turner

*That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler

**ZZZng! ZZZng! ZZZng! A Yoruba Tale - Gershator

Symbolism:

*Fly Away Home – Bunting

*Keeping Quilt – Polacco

Flashback:

*Alexander; Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday – Viorst

*Miss Rumphius - Cooney

Alliteration:

**Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein

*Animalia - Base

*Dinorella - Edwards

**Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish - Obligado

**Four Famished Foxes - Edwards

*Some Smug Slug - Edwards

**Wacky Wedding - Edwards

**What Pete Ate from A – Z – Kalman

**Worrywarts - Edwards

Idioms:

*Amelia Bedelia - Parish

**Dog Breath - Pilkey

*In a Pickle, and Other Funny Idioms - Terban 428.1

**My Momma Likes to Say –Bre

Homonyms:

*Eight Ate, A feast of Homonym Riddles – Terban

**Why the Banana Split - Walton

Oxymorons:

**Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? And other Oxymorons – Agee

Palindromes:

*Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog! – Agee

*Too Hot to Hoot – Terban

Homophones:

*A Chocolate Moose for Dinner – Gwynne

Anagrams:

**Elvis Lives! And Other Anagrams – Agee

READING SKILLS:

Main Idea:

*Chair for my Mother - Williams

*Fables - Lobel

*Frog Prince Continued - Scieszka

*Great Kapok Tree – Cherry

*The Important Book - Brown

*Keeping Quilt – Polacco

Vocabulary:

*Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster – Frasier

Plot:

*Ming Lo Moves the Mountain – Lobel (Banner books)

*Three Little Javelinas - Lowell

*Three Little Pigs

*Other fairy tales: traditional vs. modern version

Drawing conclusions/ Inferences:

*Wreck of the Zephyr - Van Allsburg

Cause & Effect:

*Across the Stream - Ginsburg

*Comet’s Nine Lives - Brett

**Encounter – Yolen

*If You Take a Mouse to the Movies - Numeroff

*If You Give a Moose a Muffin – Numeroff

*If You Give a Mouse a Cookie – Numeroff

*If You Give a Pig a Pancake – Numeroff

*Napping House – Wood

**River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz

*Sierra – Siebert

*That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler

*Where the Wild Things Are - Sendak

*Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears – Aardema

*Why the Chicken Crossed the Road - Macaulay

Point of View:

*Black and White - Macaulay

**Call Me Ahnighito – Conrad

*Great Kapok Tree – Cherry

**Great Shaking –Carson

*Pain and the Great One – Blume

**Something to Tell the Grandcows - Spinelli

**Through Grandpa’s Eyes – MacLachlan

*Tight Times – Hazen

*True Story of the Three Little Pigs - Scieszka/Smith

*Two Bad Ants – Van Allsburg

**Voices in the Park - Browne

*When I Was Young in the Mountains – Rylant

**Barn – Atwell

Story Sequence:

*Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain - Aardema

*Jumanji - Van Allsburg

*King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub – Wood

*The Mitten – Brett

*Where the Wild Things Are – Sendak

Fact/Fiction:

**Like Jake and Me – Jukes

**Perfect Puppy for Me – O’Connor & Hartland

*Popcorn Book - de Paola

**Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, Mysteries, and Rattlesnake Ceremonies – Dewey

*Stellaluna – Cannon

*Verdi – Cannon

GENRES:

Autobiography:

**Don’t You Know there’s a War On? – Stevenson, James

*Through My Eyes – Bridges, Ruby

Biography:

**Wilma Unlimited – Krull (Wilma Rudolph) 921 Rud

**American Boy, the Adventures of Mark Twain – Brown

Fantasy:

*Rootabaga Stories – Sandburg

Historical fiction:

*Pink and Say – Polacco (Civil War)

*Train to Somewhere – Bunting (Orphan Train)

Mystery:

*Grandpa’s Teeth – Clement

Realistic fiction:

**Lady in the Box - McGovern

*Your Move – Bunting

Science fiction:

Mission Ziffoid – Rosen

*Nova’s Ark – Kirk

PARTS OF SPEECH:

Nouns:

*A Cache of Jewels – Heller

*A Mink, a Fink, a Skating rink, What is a Noun? - Cleary, Brian

Pronouns:

*I and You and Don’t Forget Who – Cleary, Brian

**Mine, All Mine – Heller

Verbs:

*Kites Sail High – Heller

**Old Black Fly - Aylesworth

**Prairie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters Wave: How Animals Say Hello – Singer

**Pumpkin Soup – Cooper

*To Root, to toot, to Parachute; What is a Verb? - Cleary, Brian

Zzzng! Zzzng! A Yoruba Tale – Gershator

Adjectives:

*Hairy, Scary, Ordinary; What is an Adjective? - Cleary, Brian

**Old Black fly – Aylesworth

*Many Luscious Lollipops – Heller

*That’s Good! That’s Bad! - Cuyler

*Things that are Most in the World – Barrett

Adverbs:

*Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely What is an Adverb? –Cleary, Brian

**Faint Frogs Feeling Feverish – Obligado

*Z Was Zapped - Van Allsburg

Prepositions:

**Behind the Mask – Heller

*Under, Over, by the Clover; What is a Preposition? – Cleary, Brian

Superlatives:

*Things that are Most In the World –Barrett

Interjections and Conjunctions:

*Fantastic! Wow! And Unreal! – Heller

Grammar:

*Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm – Nolen

**Old Jake’s Skirts – Slonim

Alliteration, Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives:

**Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein

Compound Words:

*Once there was a Bull… (frog) – Walton

WRITING SKILLS:

Letter Writing:

**Armadillo from Amarillo– Cherry

**Around the World, Who’s been Here? – George

Message in the Mailbox – Leedy

**Stringbean’s Trip to the Shining Sea – Williams

Acrostic Poems:

**Autumn, an Alphabet Acrostic – Schnur

Punctuation:

*Punctuation takes a Vacation - Pulver

Vocabulary:

*Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster – Frasier

Jokes & Riddles:

*Funny You Should Ask: How to Make Up Jokes and Riddles with Wordplay – Terban

ABC Books:

**Absolutely Awful Alphabet – Gerstein

*Animalia – Base

*Antics – Hepworth

Many Nations, An Alphabet of Native Americans – Bruchac

**Miss Spider’s ABC - Kirk

**Old Black Fly – Aylesworth

**Prairie Alphabet - Bannatyne-Cugnet

**Prairie Primer A-Z – Stutson

**Tomorrow’s Alphabet – Shannon

**Wacky Wedding – Edwards

**What Pete Ate A-Z - Kalman

Memorable Language:

*Fireflies! – Brinckloe

*Home Place – Dragonwagon

*Jumanji – Van Allsburg

**LettingSwiftRiver Go – Yolen

**Memory Box – Shanley

Midnight in the Mountains – Lawson

**My Mama Had a Dancing Heart –Gray

**Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street – Schotter

*Owl Moon – Yolen

*The Relatives Came – Rylant

Word Choice:

*Amos & Boris – Steig

*Chris Van Allsburg’s books

*Home Place – Dragonwagon

*Patricia Polacco’s books

Character Traits:

*Amazing Grace – Hoffman

*Amos & Boris – Steig

*Chrysanthemum – Henkes

*Crow Boy – Yashima

*Miss Rumphius – Cooney

*My Great Aunt Arizona – Houston

*Song and Dance Man - Ackerman

Literacy:

*Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair - Polacco

*Thank You, Mr. Falker - Polacco

Fairy Tales:

**Chickerella - Auch

**Cindy Ellen, a Wild Western Cinderella - Lowell

**Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea - Johnston

*Egyptian Cinderella – Climo

**Fanny’s Dream - Buehner

*Frog Prince Continued - Scieszka

**Gift of the Crocodile, A Cinderella Story - Sierra

*Jim and the Beanstalk - Briggs

**Kate and the Beanstalk – Osborne

**Little Red Cowboy Hat - Lowell

*Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters -Steptoe

*Paper Bag Princess - Munsch

**Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood – Artell

**Princess Furball - Huck

*Squids Will Be Squids – Scieszka

*Stinky Cheese Man – Scieszka

**Three Cool Kids - Emberley

*True Story of the Three Little Pigs –Scieszka

*Yours Truly, Goldilocks - Ada

Fables:

*Blind Men and the Elephant – Backstein

*Fables – Lobel, Arnold

*Tortoise and the Hare: an Aesop Fable – Stevens

Nursery Rhymes:

**And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon - Stevens

**Here Comes Mother Goose – Opie

*Itsy Bitsy Spider - Trapani

Cumulative Tales:

**Book that Jack Wrote - Scieszka